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Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital

Ohio State’s heart and vascular experts offer the best care in central Ohio. No other hospitals or heart centers in central Ohio are ranked among the nation’s best by U.S.News & World Report. Only Ohio State.

Ohio State’s Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital is a 150-bed facility that combines the latest technology with patient-focused care to create the best possible healing environment. Each floor is dedicated to a specific service, such as cardiac surgery or vascular medicine, and we offer universal patient rooms. This means rooms are designed to be adaptable, allowing most patients to stay in the same private room throughout their hospitalization rather than having to move from room to room as their medical needs change.

Ambulatory Care Center

Experts at the Ross Heart Hospital Ambulatory Care Center see patients on an outpatient basis for initial and follow-up visits related to heart and vascular conditions. These experts include a team of doctors, nurses and other highly skilled heart and lung specialists.

OSU Lung Transplant and OSU Heart Transplant also see patients at the Ross Heart Hospital Ambulatory Care Center. These transplant experts closely follow patients and donors through every phase of transplantation.

Heart Transplant

Ohio State’s Comprehensive Transplant Center (CTC) is a nationally ranked leader in caring for patients with kidney, heart and lung, and other diseases.

OSU Heart Transplant sees patients at the Ross Heart Hospital Ambulatory Care Center, located on the first floor of the Ross Heart Hospital. A team of transplant experts closely follow patients and donors through every phase of heart transplantation.

Since completing our first heart transplant in 1986, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center has been the only adult heart transplant center in central Ohio.

Inherited Arrhythmia Clinic

The Inherited Arrhythmia Clinic at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is a consultative service providing comprehensive management, treatment and genetic counseling as well as genetic testing for patients with, or at risk for, inherited cardiac rhythm disorders. Patients are treated by a multidisciplinary team of experts including electrophysiologists and electrophysiology nurses, a medical geneticist, certified genetic counselor and pharmacist.

Intensive Care

4th Floor
Phone: 614-293-8000

Patients recovering from heart procedures such as surgery, bypass or stenting will spend time in the cardiac intensive care unit for observation and recovery. Our staff at the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital combines the latest technology with outstanding, patient-focused care to create the best possible healing environment and outcomes for our patients.

Visiting Hours (7 days a week):

10 a.m. -2 p.m.

Note: Times are as general hospital visiting hours, but may be limited based on patient's condition.

Lung Transplant

Ohio State’s Comprehensive Transplant Center (CTC) is a nationally ranked leader in caring for patients with kidney, heart and lung, and other diseases. OSU Lung Transplant sees patients at the Ross Heart Hospital Ambulatory Care Center, located on the first floor of the Ross Heart Hospital. A team of transplant experts closely follow patients and donors through every phase of lung transplantation.

Sleep Medicine

Our Sleep Medicine experts literally work around the clock to help people with sleep problems. We help patients with sleep apnea and heart disease. Sleep apnea is serious condition in which breathing stops and starts during sleep. Studies show treating of sleep apnea improves heart function and reduce heart disease risk. Specific treatment for heart disease and sleep apnea will be determined by your physician based on various factors, such as age, health and medical history. Therapy options are based on individual needs.

Recommended Parking

It is recommended you park in the SafeAuto Hospitals Garage, open 24/7. Handicapped parking spaces and elevators are available.

This garage utilizes Pay-on-Foot machines that are located on the ground floor and bridge level elevator lobbies. Take your ticket with you on your visit and stop at the Pay-on-Foot station on your way back to your car. Pay your parking fees, and use the paid ticket at any exit lane.

Special Instructions

General Game Day Parking and Traffic Updates

Football traffic patterns depend on a variety of factors including time of day, time of game, traffic flows, parking availability. Follow the OSU Department of Public Safety on Twitter at @OSUPOLICE for real-time game day traffic and parking updates.

If you are coming to the game and would like information about parking, visit the www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/gameday for game day parking information and a map. An updated schedule (as kickoff times are announced) can be found on the site by selecting Football and Schedules from the Men’s Sports drop-down menu.

Visitors

Visiting a Patient

For the comfort of our patients, only two visitors are permitted at any one time. Talk with the charge nurse in your unit if you would like to have additional visitors. All visitors must be free of illness. In areas where overnight visitors are allowed, visitors must wear an identification badge at all times. Patient visitation is not restricted on the basis of age, ethnicity, religion, culture, language, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.

Visitation is 24 hours a day in most areas of the hospital, but please check with the staff in the patient care unit to confirm the policy for that area. From 10 p.m.-5 a.m., patients are limited to one visitor. Intensive Care Unit hours vary, so please check with unit staff.

Children are able to visit when accompanied and properly supervised by a non-patient adult at all times. The child is considered one of the two patient visitors. Children may visit the Intensive Care Unit patients by checking with staff first.

Please turn off your cell phones or any radio transmitted devices while in the hospital.